Security

What is actually PCI Complaince and why it is required?
The PCI (Payment Card Industry) is a data security standard that must be followed by all the financial institutions, credit card companies, Payment gateway and merchants those are processing the online card payments. The server, computer or any other IP equipment’s processing these data by MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Visa, and JCB International must compliance with these Data Security Standards. PCI scan is very essentials and should meet these Data [...]

How to install Fail2Ban
Fail2Ban is a great utility to use to help prevent a server from being brute forced attacked on SSH. Fail2Ban works with Iptables to block a culprit IP for a certain amount of time. The actual setup and configuring can be done in under 10 minutes.
Installation
1.To install fail2ban you will need to have root access (login with user and “su –“ to root). Type the following to begin the install process.
yum –enablerepo=dag install fail2ban
Yum will install [...]